Marcus Triun - Part 41

The earth started to shake. It has been done, it is time. I fell on the ground, and so did the kid. The earthquake was so heavy, it made splits in the earth which the kid almost fell in, I turned my head to the kid and I ran towards him as fast as I could. He was holding onto one split and I quickly grabbed his arms to pull him up on the vast ground. ???:"HOLY...Thank you thank you thank you soooo--..." Volfram:"Hush." I looked to him in a way that he was wasting my time. Volfram:"Probably if you wouldn't have been here, I just could go on without worrying about you falling in five kilometre deep holes." ???:"I'm sorry for all the inconvenience I have caused in this short amount of time... But I just want to come with you and avenge my old teacher for what he has done to this village... I just don't remember him this way. And I want to get the monster back that took my father.. " I felt sorry for the kid, and I really did want to help him. But it's simply not my thing. This is probably the worst choice I have made in my life, I grinned from the inside. Volfram:" Alright kid, you can go with me. As long as you don't hold me up, since I'm a lone wolf. I don't like company that much." ???:"I really appreciate this...Sir... Cucurion is the na--..." Volfram:"Please, we already have lost too much time. It's time to go, do you have a horse?" Cucurion :"...N-...No..." Volfram facepalmed himself. Great. Just great. Volfram:"Do you have any family members which you want to say goodbye to?" Cucurion:" I have sister, and I don't know where my father is. Probably the Ayakashi took him with them...Or worse...I brought my sister to the inn of Dalushville, she can work there and in return for the work and effort she can sleep and eat there." Volfram:"Great, well you can sit on the backside." Cucurion:"...Where did that darn earthquake come from anyhow?" Volfram:"Seals have been broken, they won't be ever healed now. We have to terminate the cause of the thing that created this, before the whole world will suffer from this." Cucurion:"...Has this to do with Marcus?" Volfram:"Probably, yes. But I'm not sure yet, to be honest I'm not sure if Marcus did this." I walked to my stallion and hopped on again, there was nothing to find here anymore. Probably the kid would be the closest thing to find Marcus, or the other Ayakashi. Volfram:"Well, grab your stuff together so we can leave this place." Cucurion:"If I would have any, I still wouldn't have took it. We're losing time we have to leave now." NOW he was making sense. He jumped onto the back of my mighty stallion. Happily she was strong enough to hold the both of us. I galloped away, I heard the kid talking to me on the backseat. Cucurion:"But Sir, what is your name?" Volfram:"If I will tell you, I'll probably have to kill you." I said on a gruesome tone. Cucurion:"I've stared into the death anyways. So I wouldn't mind you killing me." I started to like the kid. Volfram:"Volfram is the name. The rest does not matter.." Cucurion:"...Damnit, I can't see so well anymore." Volfram:"Probably since you caught some wooden splinters in your eye." Cucurion:"How did you --..." Volfram:"We witch-hunters, locate very small details. It's probably better to keep it inside your eye since surgery will probably make you blind anyways." I could hear the kid agreeing. Volfram:" Any idea where Marcus would venture to?" Cucurion:"Well actually I ha--..." He stopped. Volfram:"You actually ha? I beg you pardon?" Cucurion:"Stop with galloping, v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y..." I stopped my stallion, and jumped off. Cucurion looked totally white in his face and he was stiff, sitting on the stallion. What was he doing? I turned my face to the direction where he was looking at. Oh...My...Lord... Ogres, Orcs, Trolls, Goblins all working together. Creating monstrous catapults, weapons and houses. Camps and Patrol-Sentinels, which were gigantic ogres, everywhere. I saw in the corner of my eye, that a towerguard (a troll) was readying an arrow and was marking for the kid's head. I ran towards him and jumped...I threw him off the horse, and ducked together with him behind the horse. I could hear the horse whinny, and I saw arrows flying through it's body. It was just a matter of a second that I realized the horse would fall on us if it died, so I quickly stood up with all my weapons and grabbed the kid so he stood on his feet. He was still paralyzed, eventhough you wouldn't suspect such a thing from a kid with such a body and courage. I ran with him, I heard a horn was blown, and I could feel the earth shake because of the monsters that were running over the ground. They're too fast. I saw a hollow tree, and I dumped the kid in there and said:"Keep yourself silent. I will attract them so they will follow me, and leave you alone. Just keep your mouth shut." I walked away from the hollow tree, took out my flintlock and I saw the monsters looking for us. I loaded my flintlock, aimed for one of the Goblins heads, and I shot one through the head. They noticed me, and chased after me. I had to be quick about this one. I ran far into the woods, I could hear them still chasing me. Darn. I ran to a tree and dissolved into the shadow of the tree. Two Orcs, both pretty muscular, walked past me trying to find me. They were talking in Orcish, happily I could understand it. Since as a Witch - Hunter you need to speak atleast seven languages, happily Orcish was one of 'em. Orc Sentinel:"Darn that human, our master probably would've tortured him and we could've eaten his remains." The other Sentinel snorted and laughed:"Probably, yes. Our Demon lord Marcus won't be too happy about this though." Darn, Marcus already gathered quite an army in such a small time. Orc Sentinel:" Now we finally have the chance to show the humans, elves , angels and so on that we can think for ourselves too. That we have power too, and then WE can ban THEM from this world." So that's how he manipulates them. I still had my flintlock in my hand, and I unsheathed my rapier with the other hand. I shot the first sentinel through his head, and decapitated the other sentinel as quick as he turned his head around. I heard someone screaming. Darn, the kid ! I sheathed my rapier, and ran towards the hollow tree with the flintlock in my hand...It weren't the monsters nor Marcus that captured the kid. It was someone far more dangerous. A horrific sight to see. It was him. It was Daemon.